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Area folks celebrated a long weekend for this year's July 4 holiday. Many attended the 2020 Mina Lake Freedom Festival on Friday, July 3. Vice Admiral Lyle Bien, a Webster native, was the guest speaker. The program included three sky divers, including one with a U.S. flag....
To thank the community for its support, Sanford Health Ipswich Clinic will host a drive-through event on Thursday, July 16, offering free summer treats. “The last few months have been challenging for everyone, but we are so grateful for the support the community has shown us,” said Ashley Erickson, executive director at Sanford Aberdeen and Sanford Health Ipswich Clinic. “This event is a fun way for Sanford staff to see our friends and neighbors and say thank you, while maintaining social distancing.” The event runs from 1-2 p.m., or while s...
Lyla Agius enjoyed sewing. That interest bloomed when she took classes in California in weaving. Lyla, now an Ipswich residence, began weaving in 2007. That hobby has become a full-time interest. She started her own weaving business Lyla Agius Designs in 2013. She now has six looms in a large home in Ipswich on North Fourth Street, the former Dehnert home. The looms fill two rooms. The yarn, supplies and office can be found upstairs. Lyla has had a southwest dish towels project published in the...
More than 200 South Dakota cities, counties and tribes will share in $500,000 in grants intended to control mosquitoes and prevent West Nile virus (WNV), the Department of Health announced recently. “South Dakota has a disproportionately high number of WNV cases when compared to other states. Local mosquito control efforts play a vital role in protecting our communities,” said Bill Chalcraft, administrator of public health preparedness and response for the Department of Health. All applying communities received funding, with grants ranging fro...
The long holiday weekend proved to be a stormy one and the individual storms seemed to run together on into Sunday night. (And those July 5 storms were apparently even more intense both to the south and north of us in Faulk County and McPherson County.) But Monday's, July 6 weather wasn't as inclement as the advance forecasts had predicted and Tuesday morning also dawned mostly sunny with a light northwest wind for a change. Meanwhile, some residences in Ipswich (including us) were without power Saturday night for over two hours during the July...
By Connie Sieh Groop Special to the Farm Forum Editor’s Note: This story appeared in the Farm Forum June 26, 2020 and was written to honor Farm Forum’s Farming Fathers. June 15 was one of many exceptional days at the Geditz farm near Ipswich. “We started at 8:30 in the morning and finished up at 7:30 that night,” Larry Geditz, 61, of Ipswich said. “One of us was running the V-rake with two of us baling. It was great to be out there with the family working together. That’s when you know you’ve done something right. The wind dried the alfalfa,...
From the Ipswich Tribune June 24, 1925 edition NEW LAW HAS SHARP TEETH Bootleggers to be hit hard by Act passed by recent legislative session. Harder times than ever are in sight for the South Dakota bootlegger and also the outside dispenser of illicit alcoholic drinks under the new law passed by the legislature last winter and which will go into effect on the first of July. No more can he solace himself with the thought that in the event he is caught in his illicit operations that he can get out of the scrape with the payment of a fifty...
Important Dates July 15 — Deadline to submit 2020 Crop Acreage Report July 15 — Deadline to submit ARC-Individual Farm Yields July 15 — Deadline to submit 2019 NAP production August 1 — Deadline to submit COC nominations August 21 — Deadline to sign-up for CRP SHIPP August 28 — Deadline to apply for CFAP August 31 — CRP Managed Haying/Grazing ends September 7 — Office closed for Labor Day September 30 — Deadline to update ARC PLC Yields Report Notice of Loss within 15 days of occurrence for all crops and grasses Coronavirus Food Assistance P...